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Whether you’re a website owner or a website visitor, everyone wants a fast loading website which can carry out sensitive exchanges of information securely. In 2014, Google announced that it was beginning to use HTTPS as a ranking signal, signalling an increased emphasis on secure connections from...

Trends in digital media come and go, but recently, one of the more noticeable trends in digital media has been the gradual shift in emphasis toward video content. From major mainstream outlets like Mashable, MTV News, and Vice to smaller operations, more and more...

An estimated 240,000 ecommerce stores use Magento for their online operations, which accounts for nearly 30% of the ecommerce platform market. Unfortunately, this not only makes clear that Magento is a worthwhile program, it makes clear something else: It’s a focus area for cyber...

Facebook Relevance Score : 4 Key Facts to Know [ad 1] Every decent online ad platform has a metric for measuring ad quality. The better your ad quality, the lower your costs and the more people get to see your ads. For Google AdWords,...

A slow site is a slow death for a brand. Whether you have a blog, an online storefront or anything else, your viewers need to able to form a positive impression fast. You have to be able to load a page quickly to pull...

Optimizing your 404 page is unlikely to top your list in terms of digital marketing priorities. However, it’s not something you should overlook or try to rush – especially if your site is frequently changing URLs. 404s (…or four zero fours if you’re in...

When I initially started working in SEO, I was working for then-unknown start-ups (including this one), and branded searches seemed to me to be the most boring part of SEO and PPC. Those searches are already there (they get created by other channels), you’re...

Modern society has now shifted from a computer/desktop focused landscape to a place where the mobile platform dominates most, if not all, of the online industry. It has only been a year since Google announced that they are moving to a more mobile-focused indexing, and...

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind...

SEO professionals have, at one time or another, experienced having low-quality pages. There are numerous factors in play when Google judges what quality a page has. From the searcher’s behavior to spelling mistakes, a lot of things determine your page’s quality. The great thing...

Speak to pretty much anyone about SEO and the rhetoric will largely be in regards to the “Big G”. It makes sense. Google has a worryingly large share of the search engine market, especially in Europe and the US, so why would SEOs spend...

Landing page basics Most ecommerce websites have many pages: the homepage, an “About” page, individual product pages, product category pages, etc. Although the homepage is often thought of as the first page your visitor sees, in practice, this isn’t usually what happens. The prevalence...

Brands with many distributor locations across the country use dealer locator tools to provide consumers information on how to find their products at local stores. But more often than not, these dealer locator mappers are missing the necessary local SEO optimizations that make their...

Digital Marketing today is incomplete without effective content marketing. As a business you need content to promote your services like never before. The best part is that many big and midsize businesses are investing a decent amount of money into content marketing. Businesses, however,...

Google Search Console has long been a go-to platform for SEOs on a daily basis. It provides invaluable insight into how people are finding our websites, but also allows us to monitor and resolve any issues Google is having in accessing our content. Originally...

The one thing that remains constant in an SEO professional’s strategy is that content is still king, and to make the best SEO blog post they could possibly produce on a regular basis. However, I am here to tell you that you’re probably believing...

I’ve got good news and bad news. In traditional fashion, let’s start with the bad news. By almost every metric, businesses with big budgets are doing better in Google AdWords than lower spenders. Maybe not surprising, but it still hurts. The rich get richer...

It is a fact that a successful link building campaign starts with link outreach. However, link outreach has become much harder to enact because of the feeling of alienation content writers get whenever we give them unreasonable amounts of link requests. That is actually not...

SEO is an exceptionally fast-paced industry, and sometimes keeping on top of the latest updates and imminent changes can be a full-time job in itself. One factor that is having an unprecedented effect on organic search is voice search. The combination of an increase...

The signs of fundamental change are all around us. Digital assistants reside within our living rooms, we consume Internet-based services everywhere, and we are creating data every second of the day. A sense pervades of being constantly connected through devices that communicate with each other....

I know I say this every month, but man, there was a lot going on at the WordStream blog in August. It might not have been the busiest month news-wise (though we did see some important changes to how ad rotation is handled in...

Which brands dominate the US flights market in search? A new report by Pi Datametrics has analyzed the entire US flights market to discover the most organically valuable search themes and players with the greatest share of voice across the market. The search data was collected...

Google Analytics (GA) has done more than any other platform to bring the practice of data analytics to the center of organizations. By offering a free-to-use, intuitive solution to businesses of any size, it has offered the promise of full transparency into customer behavior....